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Timothy Lunney has been living in South Florida since 1977. Following graduation with a major in urban and regional studies, he worked as a planner in water quality, economic development and historic preservation in Portland and Bangor, Maine. After “freezing his bones off in Maine for two winters,” Timothy headed to West Palm Beach, where he became the director of planning and community development. He also served as the chief development management officer for Palm Beach County before moving into the private sector to work as a vice president for Westinghouse’s Coral Ridge Properties real estate development division for eleven years. The company was sold in 1995, and Timothy became an urban planning consultant and expert witness. With the collapse of the Florida real estate and development economy in 2008, Timothy turned to his passions of Irish history and genealogy. He capitalized on his hobby as historian and genealogist for his extended Irish-American family and on connections with relatives all over the world to create the Florida Irish Heritage Center, with related YouTube channel and online store. Timothy wrote that if he had known how much fun he could have doing this, he would have started it years ago. While he waits for the Florida economy to improve he is putting his time to good use, still wearing the green—one shade for Dartmouth and one for the Irish.

Our class executive committee has started a process to identify and launch a class project for our 40th reunion in 2014. Phil Stebbins is part of a small group exploring options. Stay tuned to future columns for more information about the class project. Phil has kept in touch with developments at Dartmouth through the years. Except for a four-year family practice residency in California after Dartmouth Medical School and a five-year stint later practicing in Massachusetts, Phil has lived in New Hampshire. He and his former wife, Betsey Cox ’77, have two Dartmouth daughters among their four children, Rebecca ’11 and Katie ’04, who have renewed his Hanover connection recently. Phil lives and practices in Londonderry now. Phil reports that he and his wife, Linda, who owns a medical billing business, enjoy wines, reading, church, music, sailing, cycling and following the Red Sox and the Patriots. That would keep anyone else busy enough, but they also love to travel. In his note to me Phil described visits to wine country destinations all over California as well as the Willamette Valley in Oregon. In the winter they escape the northland cold with trips to Mexico or the Caribbean.

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